The Golden Thread 2: A Fiber Art Exhibition
BravinLee Programs is pleased to reprise The Golden Thread: A Fiber Art Exhibition, with a second iteration that includes 60 new artists and over a 100 artworks, including 8 site-specific installations.
The Golden Thread: New Adventures in Textile Art by Christian Viveros-Fauné
Excerpt from 2024 Essay
“A practice that encompasses embroidery, tapestry, quilting, carpet design, and much, much more, textile art has undergone a renaissance over the past century. Artists of all types and from every corner of the planet have pushed hard on what can be termed textile, and even harder on the ways in which textile can be considered art. Once marginalized from the hidebound concept of “fine art” because of its functional origins, textile art now appears poised to take advantage of its previous outsider status—principally by asking questions of art’s presumed hierarchies.”
Learn More
2025 Artists
Liv Aanrud, Alissa Alfonso, Abdolreza Aminlari, Paolo Arao, Natalie Baxter, Felix Beaudry, Sammy Bennet, Montrel Beverly, Samantha Bittman, Julia Bland, Jess Blaustein, Chris Bogia, Eileen Braun, Jennifer Cecere, Ruby Chishti, Poppy Deltadawn, Rima Day, Sam Dienst, Lesley Dill, Ali Dipp, Lucia Engstrom, Mark Fleuridor, Terri Friedman, Manuela Gonzalez, Francoise Grossen, Tali Halpern, Sharon Kerry Harlan, Valerie Hegarty, Ana María Hernando, Candace Hicks, Traci Johnson, Anna Kunz, Lauren Luloff, Karen Margolis, Ruben Marroquin, Caitlin McCormack, Lior Modan, Tomo Mori, Ellie Murphy, Tura Oliveira, Mia Pearlman, Sheila Pepe Julie Peppito, Debra Rapoport, Josie Love Roebuck, Baylee Schmidt, Sylvia Schwartz, Michelle Segre, Manju Shandler, Fran Siegel, Emily Silver, Jacqueline Surdell Rhian Swierat, Suzanne Tick, Trish Tillman, Tiny Pricks Project (Diana Weymar), Maris Van Vlack, Cyle Warner, Rachel Mica Weiss, Ulla-Stina Wikander, Halley Zien
On View
April 11 – May 16
Hours
Wed – Sun
12:00pm – 6:30 pm
Location
207 Front Street
Curated By
BravinLee programs
Featured Works
Emily Silver, The Shape of It, 2024, felt, shipping blankets, Icelandic wool, Icelandic fish net and mixed fabrics, 6” x 9”
Lauren Luloff, Split in Two (I wonder), 2024, Dyed silk, 111” x 119”
Lucia Engstrom, Echo, Hand embroidered with organic silk, mohair, unspun cashmere, 29” x 23”
Samantha Bittman, Untitled, 2019, acrylic on handwoven textile, 30” x 24”
About BravinLee programs
John Lee and Karin Bravin opened their first gallery in Soho in 1991. Later they moved to Chelsea to expand upon the conventional gallery idea by collaborating with colleagues and institutions on a project by project basis. Currently, BravinLee curates several off-site shows and public art installations; they produce limited edition hand-knotted rugs with artists; and they privilege the medium of the artist book in their artists’ book program a few of which were recently exhibited at the Outsider Art Fair.
Learn More